It's a small world

Today the postie came by with various parcels. He is our regular one and has been bringing us post for a while. One of the parcels today was covered in many many stamps from Mum with Russian books for Timmy. As the postie was handing me the parcel he said that it was a very interesting one from Russia, so I replied that it was from my Mum with books for the baby. He then asked me whether I spoke Russian, so I replied that I do. He then started talking to me in Russian and turns out that he is also from Novosibirsk. Well technically from Berdsk - a town not far from Novosibirsk. So then we laughed at the fact that this is one very small world indeed. This guy has been bringing our post for many years now and I would never have picked him to be Russian, let alone from the same town as me!